Ship Breaker Theme Quotes & Sayings

Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking
that they weren't merely visitors. — Kurt Vonnegut

When you have armed militants, aided and abetted by a major country like Russia, able to use surface-to-air missiles to bring down a commercial airline, that is a form of terrorism. — Hillary Clinton

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery. — Morris Bender

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude. — James Russell Lowell

Unless there is meaning, there is no solution. — Sol Sender

Yet a single sound, a single scent, already heard or breathed long ago, may once again, both in the present and the past, be real without being present, ideal without being abstract, as soon as the permanent and habitually hidden essence of things is liberated, and our true self, which may sometimes have seemed to be long dead, but never was entirely, is re-awoken and re-animated when it receives the heavenly food that is brought to it. — Marcel Proust

As for my memory, I have a particularly good one. I never keep any record of my investigations or experiments. My memory files all these things away conveniently and reliably. I should say, though, that I didn't cumber it up with a lot of useless matter. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz

There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air ... The final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike; it soared twice as high as any they had had before ... The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness. — Jan Struther

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being. — Lou Holtz